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   GlobalSoilMap.net
Postado em: 01/04/2009 às 08:07

One of AMFOODS Co_PIs (Dra Lourdes Mendonça from Embrapa - Brazil) is part of a major international project:

GlobalSoilMap.net is a new global project that aims to make a new digital soil map.It is funded by a 18 million US$ from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and AGRA to map the soils in Africa and to establish the global consortium. The GlobalSoilMap.net consortium, which is led by ISRIC - World Soil Information (Wageningen, Netherlands), includes the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Ispra, Italy), CSIRO (Canberra, Australia), the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia), Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing, China), the Earth Institute at Columbia University (New York, USA), the US Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service (Morgantown, USA), IRD (Montpellier, France), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa, Rio de Janeiro) and CIAT-TSBF (Nairobi, Kenya). The African leg of the project was launched in Nairobi in January and the global project was launched in New York in February 2009. Alex McBratney from the University of Sydney in Australia enthuses about the new map, “The global digital soil map will use advances in technologies including remote sensing, data mining and spatial databases, and our improved scientific understanding of soil, for accurate prediction and sampling of soil properties. The new maps will replace the beautiful coloured paper soil maps developed in the last century which depicted soil types and which were largely qualitative and somewhat fixed depictions of soil distribution. Digital soil maps, with their infinity of shades and colours and ways of presentation are essentially spatial information systems of soil propertieskey to the soil’s sustainable productivity and ecosystem function. Digital soil maps are quantitative and dynamic and are in tune with the needs of scientists, policy makers and government officials. In a sense their use is only limited by the imagination of potential users. It is truly thrilling to be part of such a global enterprise.”Work has started in sub-Saharan Africa.
   All Landsat data in the USGS archive now free
Postado em: 02/04/2009 às 13:58
All Landsat data in the USGS archive now free

 Landsat sensors record reflected and emitted energy from Earth in
various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Landsats 5 and 7
"see" and record blue, green, and red light in the visible spectrum as
well as near-infrared, mid-infrared, and thermal-infrared light that
human eyes cannot perceive. Landsat records this information digitally
and it is downlinked to ground stations, processed, and stored in a data
archive. It is this digital information that makes remotely sensed data
invaluable. Landsat data have been used to monitor water quality,
glacier recession, sea ice movement, invasive species encroachment,
coral reef health, land use change, deforestation rates and population
growth. Landsat has also helped to assess damage from natural disasters
such as fires, floods, and tsunamis, and subsequently, plan disaster
relief and flood control programs. The Landsat data in the USGS can now
be freely downloaded, click here <http://glovis.usgs.gov/>
   The Earth Portal
Postado em: 02/04/2009 às 15:30
The Earth Portal
<http://www.earthportal.org/>  is a comprehensive resource for timely,
objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a
means for the global scientific community to come together to produce
the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource
on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on
the role of environmental issues in human affairs. It contains no
commercial advertising and reaches a large global audience. The Earth
Portal has three components: (i) The Encyclopedia of Earth
<http://www.eoearth.org/>  with over 3,500 articles, is produced and
reviewed by 1,000 scholars from 60 countries; (ii) The Earth Forum
<http://www.earthportal.org/forum>  provides commentary from scholars
and discussions with the general public, (iii) The Earth News
<http://www.earthportal.org/news>  offers news stories on environmental
issues drawn from many sources.
 
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